How to find the host on which VM is running ?

[riteshsakhuja]

Hello All,

How to find the ESX host running a VM guest by using the command line from within the guest

for example

i we have 3 ESX hosts ESX1 ESX2 ESX3

ESX1

vm1

vm2

ESX2

vm3

vm4

ESX3

vm5

vm6

is there a command that can be used from within vm3 to find it's  ESX host

Regards

Ritesh

[Troy_Clavell]

the guest has no idea of the underlying hardware(ESX), so you won't be able to get this information from the guest.

[ChrisDearden]

Guessing there isn't anything you can do via VMware Tools ?

If you pulled info from vCenter into a different CMDB , a guest could query itself that way ( to update a BGinfo Script - with the caveat that in a more fluid DRS environment , that may not always be 100% up to date )

[HannaL]

no way from the guest.  Instead look at the summary tab when the VM is highlighted and it will tell you which ESX host that VM is registered on.

[AndreTheGiant]

To do this kind of query you need some scripting to interact with the virtual environment.

Andre

[VMmatty]

Check out this blog post for a set of tools/scripts you can run to accomplish this.  It assigns a variable to the VM itself rather than something you run from within the guest, but it accomplishes the same goal.

http://onebyte8bits.com/?p=41

Matt

http://www.thelowercasew.com

[logiboy123]

Why not just install PowerCLI and use the VMware commands to return the information you are after?

http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLI/index.html

Once you have this installed you would then

Connect-VIServer vCenterServerName

Get-VMHost "ESXiServer01" | Get-VM

This would return all VM's on the ESXi host ESXiServer01.

Regards,

Paul

[dcompa_841]

Maybe the command should be

get-vm "VM Name" | get-vmhost